Selected Opinion

By Lela Gilbert – Newsmax – On Oct. 5, World Watch Monitor reported, “A 16-year-old Coptic Christian girl kidnapped on 28 June to be ‘converted to Islam, then married off [...]

By A.Z. Mohamed – Gatestone Institute – Islamist terrorists in Egypt bombed Coptic churches and killed dozens of innocent people on Palm Sunday, and Saudi Arabia, which finances and [...]

By Nina Shea – The Wall Street Journal – Trump should undo an Obama policy that largely blocks them from getting U.S. aid. As Islamic State heads toward defeat in Iraq, Christian and [...]

By Stephen Herreid – Acton Institute –  A book about religious persecution is perhaps an unusual place to find a call for Western rejuvenation. Yet readers of The Persecution and [...]

By Hany Ghoraba – Special to IPT News – Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi marched straight into a battle with Egypt’s highest Sunni authority, Al-Azhar’s mosque and [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – This is not the first time I write calling upon the Coptic Church to revive Coptic legislation that treats men and women as equals regarding inheritance. [...]

By Eric Trager – The Hill – Amr Darrag, a senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, will be speaking at Georgetown University on Thursday, and he is trying to extend his speaking [...]

By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Under the Al-Sisi government, Copts expect the religious scholars of Al-Ahzar Institute to reform Islam. A good beginning would look like this: removal of [...]

By Farid Farid – The National (UAE) – via AINA – Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria’s first pastoral visit to Australia has sparked criticism in the Egyptian press that the [...]

By Hatem Maher – MENA Source – The Atlantic – When President Donald Trump won the US presidential election late last year, Egyptian media coverage praising his stunning rise to [...]